# ROS 2 TSC Meeting Minutes - 2020-07-16

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-2-tsc-meeting-minutes-2020-07-16/15468>\
**Category:** ROS General\
**Tags:** tsc\
**Created:** [July 18, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-2-tsc-meeting-minutes-2020-07-16/15468 "2020-07-18T01:13:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-2-tsc-meeting-minutes-2020-07-16/15468/1 "2020-07-18T01:13:46Z")

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# ROS 2 TSC Meeting Agenda 2020-07-16

- Attendees
  - Apex.AI: Dejan Pangercic
  - ADLINK: Joe Speed
  - eProsima: Jaime Martin Losa
  - Bosch: Karsten Knese
  - Samsung: Steve Macenski
  - Rover Robotics: Nick Fragale
  - TRI: Toffee Albina, Ian McMahon
  - Microsoft: Sean Yen
  - ROBOTIS: Will Son
  - Amazon: Aaron Blasdel
  - LG Electronics: Lokesh Kumar Goel
  - Open Robotics: Brian Gerkey, Dirk Thomas, Chris Lalancette, Tully Foote, Louise Poubel
  - Canonical: Kyle Fazzari
  - Intel: Harold Yang
  - SwRI, representing CCDC-GVSC: Jerry Towler
  - PickNik: Dave Coleman

- Preliminaries
  - [Gerkey] Open Robotics rep change: Chris Lalancette
  - [Toffee] TRI rep change: Ian McMahon

- Old business
  - [Macenski] Pending REP-2005 PRs for inclusion (robot\_localization, slam\_toolbox, [navigation.ros.org](http://navigation.ros.org), bond)
  - [Gerkey] Need follow-up on performance issues discussion
    - TSC-internal doc in progress

- New business
  - [Gerkey] Reminder to fill in your contribution report, to be included in the minutes
  - [Aaron] Will look into sharing the Amazon script for generating contribution reports with TSC members.

- Recurring business
  - Working groups [TBD mins each]
    - [Knese] Control

    - [Speed] Edge AI

    - [Martin Losa] Embedded

    - [Macenski] Navigation

    - [Pangercic] Real-time

    - [Biggs] Safety

    - [Fazzari] Security

    - [Blasdel] Tooling

    - Went very well, we like the idea of more “Breakout Sessions” to discuss designs for e.g. Diagnostics, Cross-compile, etc

    - Adam Dabrowski from Robotec presented his findings on rosbag2 performance, identifying low hanging fruit for us to prioritize.

    - [Coleman] Manipulation

# Monthly contribution self-reporting

## Guidelines

- Each TSC representative: Please fill in your organization’s section with the engineering activities and other contributions that your organisation has made to ROS 2.
- Please fill your section prior to our next meeting on 2020-07-16.
- This report covers work done since the previous TSC meeting: 2020-06-19 - 2020-07-16. Don’t include work done earlier or planned for the future.
- Contributions may come from you, your colleagues, and/or external collaborators that you’re funding to do the work that’s reported.
- Each package to which you’re contributing should be included on the list of [ROS 2 Common Packages](https://ros.org/reps/rep-2005.html#content).
- When possible, provide links to your contributions (e.g., pull requests).
- Provide enough detail for everyone to understand what was done.
- These reports will be included in the published meeting minutes.
- Example:
  - foo\_org/bar\_pkg
    - Implemented the whizbang feature ([PR](https://github.com/foo_org/bar_pkg/pull42))
    - Investigated and reported on the superbad bug ([comment](https://github.com/foo_org/bar_pkg/issues/666#issuecomment-111111111))

## Reports

- ADLINK Technology: Joe Speed

- Amazon: Aaron Blasdel

- Apex.AI: Dejan Pangercic

- Bosch: Karsten Knese

- Canonical: Kyle Fazzari

- eProsima: Jaime Martin Losa

- Intel: Harold Yang

- LG Electronics: Lokesh Kumar Goel

- Microsoft: Sean Yen

- Open Robotics: Dirk Thomas

- PickNik: Dave Coleman

- ROBOTIS: Will Son

- Rover Robotics: Nick Fragale

- Samsung: Steven Macenski

- GVSC: Jerry Towler (SwRI)

- Tier IV: TBD

- Toyota Research Institute: Toffee Albina (-\> Ian McMahon)

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**Author:** ![Dejan\_Pangercic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/dejan_pangercic/32/293_2.png) [@Dejan\_Pangercic](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Dejan_Pangercic)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-2-tsc-meeting-minutes-2020-07-16/15468/2 "2020-07-18T19:32:20Z")

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@gerkey under Apex.AI contributions this text got doubled, can you remove 1/2?

> Apex.AI will in the remaining of the 2020 have very low contribution to packages listed here: [REP 2005 -- ROS 2 Common Packages (ROS.org)](https://ros.org/reps/rep-2005.html) because of 2 reasons:
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> - We are 100% focused on ISO 26262 certification of ROS 2 (findings of this process we will share in early 2021)
> - We drive and contribute masively to this project [Autoware Foundation / Autoware.Auto / AutowareAuto · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/autowarefoundation/autoware.auto/AutowareAuto) (which was not accepted in REP-2005)
> - We want to be fully transparent and If this fact requires actions or sanctions we will accept this

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**Author:** ![gerkey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/gerkey/32/2322_2.png) [@gerkey](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/gerkey)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-2-tsc-meeting-minutes-2020-07-16/15468/3 "2020-07-20T01:25:34Z")

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> [@Dejan\_Pangercic](#):
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> under Apex.AI contributions this text got doubled, can you remove 1/2?

Done; thanks for catching that.